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18476 results for: Keyword - Blakes</i>, deleted.] Receipts:
We found 18079 matches on Event Comments, 1063 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15651
19 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Parsons his Benefit Allowance [i.e. in lieu of a benefit] #100. Receipts: #197 5s. (171.13.0; 24.6.6; 1.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Song: Singing, as17861202, but Mrs _Wrighten

15652
20 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Kelly was from the Court Theatre, Vienna.] Receipts: #114 6s. 6d. (93.0.0; 20.15.6; 0.8.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Song: [Kelly introduced a song by Giuseppe Sarti with English words by Richard Tickell, and a duet composed by himself and Stephen Storace with words by French Laurence (Kelly, I, 296). Neither one of these is listed on the playbill]

15653
20 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Aickin. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Aickin, No. 26, Great Tichfield-street. Receipts: #190 8s. 6d. (92.19.6; 11.5.0; tickets: 85.14.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: He Woud Be A Soldier

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Dance: As17870217

15654
21 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Leoni. World, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Leoni, No. 1, Wellclose-square. Receipts: #278 (159.16; 2.16; tickets: 115.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: End I: The Soldier tir'd of War's Alarms-Master Braham; End I afterpiece: Ma chere amie-Master Braham (, pupil of Leoni) (1st appearance on any stage)

15655
23 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Baddeley. 2nd piece [1st time; INT 1, probably by Robert Baddeley. Larpent MS 765; not published]. 3rd piece [1st time; MF 1, author unknown. Larpent MS 766; not published]: The Overture and Music entirely new. Public Advertiser, 5 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Baddeley, No. 2, Little Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #285 (96.3.0; 14.1.6; 0.18.6; tickets: 173.17.0) (charge: #105 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: End of Act II mainpiece Jewish Courtship

Afterpiece Title: The Mistake of a Minute

15656
24 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Sultan, announced on playbill of 23 Apr.] Receipts: #117 13s. (92.10.0; 24.15.6; 0.2.6); ticket not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A School For Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

15657
24 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Martyr. 2nd piece [1st time; O 1, by John Wolcot. Larpent MS 770; not published]: Being a Translation from the French Opera of that name [Nina; ou, La Folle par Amour, by Benoit Joseph Marsollier des Vivetieres], now performing at Paris with universal applause. With the original Music [by Nicolas Dalayrac, adapted by William Shield and William Thomas Parke. Two other versions of this opera, both unacted, were published this year: one anonymous, and one by George Monck Berkeley]. Receipts: #300 8s. 6d. (150.0.0; 2.18.0; tickets: 147.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Nina

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Song: Between acts 1st piece: an entire new song, The Nymph's Refusal-Mrs Martyr

15658
24 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A new Comic Opera; the music by Paisiello. Under the direction of Storace. [Sga Storace was from the Opera, Vienna.] Morelli "was an actor such as the Italian stage has seldom witnessed. He was, I used to think, in his prime, quite upon a par with King of Drury Lane Theatre. Like him, he was distinguished for neat articulation, and an unremitting attention to the business of the whole stage" (Boaden, Kemble, I, 449). Receipts: #165 19s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

15659
25 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. [Author of 1st Prologue unknown. 2nd Prologue by James Cobb.] Public Advertiser, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #297 1s. 6d. (162.4.0; 13.13.6; 0.6.0; tickets: 120.18.0) (charge: #109 3s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Transformation Or The Manager An Actor In Spite Of Himself

Afterpiece Title: The Strangers at Home

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Song: End 2nd piece: Stand to your Guns-Bannister

Entertainment: After Singing: various Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, -Bannister Jun

15660
25 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farren. Mainpiece: Written by Richard Cumberland, Esq. Not acted these 10 years [acted 15 Jan. 1778]. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Farren at his House in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #303 7s. (90.8.6; 5.14.6; tickets: 207.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End: Leap Year-[see17861006]

15661
26 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Kemble continuing extremely hoarse, Julia [announced on playbill of 25 Apr.] is of necessity deferred till further notice. [It was not acted again this season.] Receipts: #165 9s. 6d. (145.11.0; 17.15.6; 2.0.6; ticket not come in: 0.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Grecian Daughter

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

15662
26 April 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sga Sestini. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Sga Sestini, No. 36, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. Receipts not listed

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gli Schiavi Per Amore

Dance: As17870329

15663
27 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. Receipts: #281 14s. (67.0.0; 20.6.6; 2.13.6; tickets: 191.14.0) (charge: #109 1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not

Afterpiece Title: The Sons of Anacreon

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

15664
27 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Pope. Afterpiece: Not acted these 7 years [not acted since 1 Feb. 1777]. Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Pope at his house in Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #207 4s. 6d. (132.6.0; 2.1.6; tickets: 72.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Dance: End: Leap Year, as17870425; II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Ryder, Mrs Pope

Song: II: a Glee-King, Darley, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Kennedy

15665
28 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Johnstone. Public Advertiser, 14 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Johnstone, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Charing-cross. Receipts: #282 2s. (135.6; 2.15; tickets: 144.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

15666
30 April 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: A School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 28 Apr.] is obliged to be deferred, on account of the Indisposition of Kelly. Receipts: #97 18s. (70.13; 24.7; 2.18)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: As17870115

Song: As17861226

15667
30 April 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 10 years [acted 5 Mar. 1778]. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30, and so continue for the remainder of the Season [but see 24 May]. Receipts: #215 14s. (207.1.6; 8.12.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

15668
01 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin at 6:30 [same for rest of season]. Receipts: #133 11s. (112.8.0; 18.12.6; 2.10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seduction

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Dance: As17870115

15669
01 May 1787 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: A Serious Opera in 2 acts [1st time; by Carlo Francesco Badini]; the music entirely new by Venanzio Rauzzini. Receipts: #178 16s. 6d. [non-subscription]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Vestale O Sia Lamore Protetto Dal Cielo

Dance: End I: Divertissement, as17870428; End Opera: Sylvie, as17870322but Mlle _Mozon

15670
01 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Wells. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Topham. Larpent MS 772; not published; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 3 May. Prologue by George Monck Berkeley (European Magazine, June 1787, p. 411)]. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Wells, No. 417, Strand. Receipts: #257 3s. 6d. (160.4.6; 5.7.0; tickets: 91.12.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement or The Loves of Bengal

Dance: As17870217

15671
02 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #218 2s. (213.5; 4.17; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement

15672
02 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Brereton. [As afterpiece the playbill announces The Sultan, but "The Public are most respectfully informed, that, in consequence of Mrs Jordan's sudden Indisposition, The Lyar will be performed this Evening instead of The Sultan" (printed slip attached to BM playbill: Burney 937. C.I.). Public Advertiser, 11 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Brereton, No. 15, Catherine-street, Strand. Receipts: #231 14s. 6d. (85.3.0; 19.9.0; 1.2.6; tickets: 126.0.0) (charge: #106 4s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

15673
03 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [As mainpiece the playbill announces Isabella, with Mrs Siddons as Isabella. But she was indisposed, and "the play was changed into The Winter's Tale" (World, 4 May).] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Charles Stuart. Prologue by the author (Public Advertiser, 17 May)]. Receipts: #137 17s. 6d. (93.2.0; 43.7.6; 1.8.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Winters Tale

Afterpiece Title: The Distressd Baronet

15674
03 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kennedy, [Miss Reynolds is identified in London Chronicle, 4 May. Afterpiece in place of The Cheats of Scapin, announced on playbill of 2 May.] Tickets delivered for the 13th of April will be admitted. Public Advertiser, 24 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kennedy at her house, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Receipts: #312 6s. (181.8; 1.5; tickets: 129.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

15675
04 May 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Forster. Public Advertiser, 21 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Forster, the corner of Castle-street, opposite Hart-street, Bloomsbury. Receipts: #174 4s. 6d. (39.15.0; 21.3.0; 1.0.6; tickets: 112.6.0) (charge: #105 16s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Double Disguise

Music: Afterpiece: Overture by Shield-; Duett on Two Flutes-Mr Forster